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A joint committee between the Federal Government and the Territory .. optimistic an agreement to resolve the thorny files between the capital, Irbil

(صوت العراق) - 06-08-2009 (Voice of Iraq) - 06-08-2009

بغداد /المدى Baghdad / termThe media adviser to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki: that a meeting between Maliki and the Kurdish leaders will be activated by the unexpected visit of the President of the Kurdistan regional government Nnigervan Barzani to Baghdad soon.

Yassin Majid, said on the long time to resolve the outstanding issues: that there is a vision to solve the problems at the time commensurate with the nature of the problem, expressing optimism for a common understanding among the parties.

He said French deputy from the Kurdistan Alliance فرياد Roandzi reached Maliki and Kurdish leaders to agree on a solution file Peshmarga.

Roandzi said in a press release: that Maliki had agreed to as part of the system Peshmarga national defense.

The MP said the Kurdistan Alliance Sirwan Zahawi: The three files can be resolved the federal government in two months between the Government of the Kurdistan province and against the backdrop of talks between Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and leaders of the Kurdistan region.

He added, according to Zahawi (Akaniwz): It «was agreed to form a joint committee between the province and Baghdad are working to end the outstanding issues between the two sides will hold its second meeting in Baghdad and one in Erbil».

He pointed out: that «the outstanding issues have been identified files simple, medium and long-term,Vabusitp is the external representation of the province, and the political system, and the financing of the Peshmerga forces,which can be resolved within the next two months,while the medium is the distribution of wealth and oil contracts need to six months.

With long-established rule 140 of the Iraqi Constitution and the need to more than six months to resolve them ».

And Zahawi: the «political system is a very simple, because the Iraqi Constitution in the paragraphs referred to the ruling regime in Iraq, a federal parliamentary system, and if there were differences in the legal interpretation of the text can be resolved by the Constitutional Court's decision is binding on all federal».

He Zahawi in the diplomatic representation of the region to be «the Constitution grants the provinces the right to diplomatic representation abroad in matters of cultural, social and economic coordination with the Iraqi embassy, and this point can be resolved quickly to open offices within the province of the Iraqi embassy, and the Federal Court has the final decision in this matter».

Among that: «the third file, which can be resolved within the next two months is the funding of the Peshmerga forces, during the previous budgets for the years 2006 and 2007 and 2008 was calculated as the financing of the federal budget Peshmarga as part of the Iraqi defense system, leaving the resolution of the file of the meeting of the President of the Kurdistan region of Iraq and Prime Minister to determine the number of these forces and their only ».

Zahawi pointed out that «the file distribution of wealth and natural oil contracts may take six months,since there are four laws, especially the oil wealth has not been approved so far by the Iraqi Council of Representatives, and this marked differences between Arbil and Baghdad, and take a long time to resolve them».

This type of file to Article 140 that the file is thorny and complex and requires time-consuming and possibly more than six months to resolve, and there are steps to the application of this article was the completion of the number of stages, including the normalization, which was closed almost a referendum would be either a public referendum to be held next October in the beginning of the second phase of the discount It remains the third phase of normalization and needed to be a political decision more than a legal-out ».

Recalled that the five committees formed last year to resolve the dispute between the five cases the Kurdistan province and the federal government headed by President Jalal Talabani and Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi and Adel Abdul Mehdi and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the Kurdistan region President Massoud Barzani.